The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.

- Robert M. Sapolsky

Until you appreciate something crucial - It is incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who counts as an Us, who as a Them.

- Robert M. Sapolsky

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compass…

- Robert M. Sapolsky

It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as to who can do th…

- Robert M. Sapolsky

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.

- Robert M. Sapolsky

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

- Robert M. Sapolsky

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.

- Robert M. Sapolsky

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to mak…

- Robert M. Sapolsky

The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems - sometimes fear, so…

- Robert M. Sapolsky